100 000 Lira

Turkey's inflation crisis of the late 1980s and early 1990s forced denominations upward at a pace the public found difficult to absorb. The 100,000 Lira note, unimaginable in face value just a decade earlier, entered circulation as a functional everyday note — not a high-denomination reserve instrument. Annual inflation was running above 60% for much of this issue period, peaking near 106% in 1994, the year this series was withdrawn.

Printed in-house by the central bank's own Ankara facility, the note reflects Turkey's long-standing policy of maintaining sovereign printing capacity rather than contracting foreign security printers. The 1994 economic crisis — triggered by a collapse in confidence in government debt — effectively ended this series early.